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All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site (click on the titles).
However, all the scripts on this site are copyrighted. They may not be printed, quoted or performed without the permission of Lazy Bee Scripts.
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Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The piece is interspersed with the reminiscences of the old Anne Garland. (Her role coulde be doubled by her younger self.)

Run Time

Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

None.

Style

Full-length period drama. The scenes flow continuously, so intended to be performed with stage areas and levels rather than a formal set.

Synopsis

Thomas Hardy's novel of life in the Napoleonic era, with soldiers massing to repel invasion, and village life in turmoil as a result.

Rose, an actor, is rehearsing the title role in a new psychological interpretation of Red Riding Hood under a hot-shot director. Meanwhile, her husband, Mark, is torn between the frustrations of his well-paid dead-end job and the uncertainties of his dream of creating his own business.

Becky is surprised to find herself in the afterlife, following a fall from a cliff. Since she died so young, she is offered the chance to return to the world for five 'experiences' that will round out her life before she moves on.

Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Characters are mainly adults, but include three children (who age two years from 9, 10 and 12 during the course of the play).

Run Time

Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

None.

Style

Drama in three acts with multiple settings depicting the horrors of World War One through its effect on one family.

Synopsis

The true story of the Wakefields, an ordinary Lancashire working class family whose three eldest sons were all killed in action fighting in the First World War.

Sheet music for eight original songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script.

Style

A full length musical play for secondary schools / youth theatre.

Synopsis

Charles Dickens hosts a musical journey through some of his most popular books. He links the works together and interacts personally with the various characters along the way. This includes some very feisty encounters with his less desirable creations.

Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. A large cast piece. Most of the characters are written male, but some could easily be switched without changing the nature of the piece.

Run Time

Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

The Producer's Copy of the script comes with sheet music for 7 original songs plus instrumental interludes. Snatches of other songs are suggested.

Style

Full-length musical comedy for juniors/teenagers.

Synopsis

Two brothers, who are a little down on their luck, stumble onto a big art theft and end up deeply involved in the search for the stolen painting, the thief and the fabulous missing Mona Lisa to boot!

Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. The cast includes cats and gremlins. Gladys could be played as a pantomime dame.

Run Time

Around 97 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

The producer's copy of the script comes with the scores for 11 original songs (plus five reprises).

Style

A musical family show with opportunities for audience participation (therefore occupying a theatrical space close to British Pantomime).

Synopsis

Graveling, the evil witch, has turned a number of good people into life size dolls and cats. The young heroes, enlist the help of the owners of the Magic Shop and Marlin the decrepit magician, and together they manage to defeat the witch and her gremlin helpers.

The Wild family theatre has been a gold-mine, and it seems that the family members will do anything to get their hands on it, including various forms of deceit, forgery and even murder. Everyone seems to be scheming against everyone else - but who fired the fatal shot, and who is the strange policeman who comes to investigate?

The dialogue is interwoven with multiple instances of five original songs.

Style

Period drama. Minimal set requirements.

Synopsis

A story (based on a local tradition) of Catholicism in the reign of Elizabeth 1st. The Jesuit priest, Edmund Campion pays a clandestine visit to Hoghton Tower in Lancashire with a young Will Shakespeare in tow. They observe the life of the house as the new lady of the manor tries to marry off the daughter of the previous lord.